From Booze to Shaving Cream
August 2014
By:
Tom K.
| Bellevue, Washington
Even though he was at his bottom, at 33 years old, he had a hard time imagining staying sober forever
A Different River
February 2014
By:
Russ K.
| New Oxford, Pennsylvania
An AA describes how he keeps his mind open to stay sober in an ever-changing life
The Life I've Been Given
September 2008
By:
L.S.
| Sands Point, New York
A child of the Holocaust stops questioning her survival and embraces the fullness of life
Fear and the Fourth Step
April 2001
By:
Ted D.
| Teaneck, New Jersey
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Around AA
May 1988
It Starts With the People
July 1987
By:
L. M.
| Springfield, Massachusetts
There was security and warmth in the room
Suggestions from a Temporary Sponsor
September 1975
By:
F. C.
| Scottdale, Arizona
A good start on the AA way of sober living
The Image Scrimmage
July 1965
By:
Anonymous
| Tuscon, Arizona
An AA old-timer reflects on self-knowledge
You, Too, Can Come Back
November 1964
By:
D. M.
| Timmins, Ontario
A drunk at 12, jailed at 16, I thought I was hopeless
Yale Has Not Moved to California
June 1962
. . .no matter what you hear about the Center of Alcohol Studies and its new home
The Arena
December 1949
By:
Charlie S.
| Greenwich Village, New York, New York
J.O. and H.S.--the last round
Beyond what I Imagined
May 2024
| How the Steps Changed My Life
By:
Michelle B.
| Kelowna, British Columbia
How the Steps helped her become more patient, tolerant, authentic, useful and right-sized
We Never Give Up
February 2021
| Sponsorship
By:
Alex M.
| Louisville, Ky.
A man from Nepal reminds him that we don’t have the power to get people sober. We just hope and keep reaching out
The Walls
June 2017
By:
Robert A.
| Vernon, British Columbia
He built a wall so high others couldn’t get in and he couldn’t get out. Then AA entered his life and he understood he wasn’t alone, after all
A Sponsor Can't Be My Higher Power
May 1972
By:
Dean S.
| Santa Monica, California
We belong to no one and no one belongs to us. We are God's "babies